Allentown, PA (February 17, 2005) - Dr. Sherwin Nuland, the
best-selling author of "How We Die," returns to Cedar
Crest College with "The Artist Looks at the Doctor: A
Millennium of Observations" on Thursday, March 17th at
7:00 p.m. in the Samuels Theatre. In his talk, Nuland will
look at the connection between art and science and the western
concept of "imaging." Dr. Nuland received an honorary
doctorate of public service from Cedar Crest College in November
1996.

Physician, surgeon, teacher, medical historian and best selling
author, Sherwin Nuland continues to enlighten audiences with
his research, scholarship, philosophy and vision on the future
of medicine. In January, Dr. Nuland spent two weeks in Sri
Lanka, one of the countries affected by the tsunami, as part
of a seven-member group that included personnel from Yale-New
Haven, Griffin and St. Mary's hospitals, the School of Medicine
and the School of Public Health.

His most recent book, "The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed
Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis" (2004),
is part of the "Great Discoveries" series, which
brings together renowned writers from diverse backgrounds to
tell the stories of crucial scientific breakthroughs. In 2000
he published "Leonardo da Vinci", which completed
Nuland's twenty year quest to understand an unlettered man
who was painter, architect, engineer, philosopher, mathematician,
and scientist.

Dr. Nuland has been teaching at Yale School of Medicine since
1962 and currently holds the title of Clinical Professor of
Surgery. His most important and personally fulfilling work
was spent administering care to 10,000 men and women who became
his patients over the course of three decades. In recognition
of his contributions to those men and women, he was named a
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

In the fall of 1999, Dr. Nuland participated in a 13 part
PBS series on "American Thinkers" in which a rich
list of contemporary scholars discussed all aspects of life.
In 1988, Nuland completed Doctors: the Biography of Medicine,
a story of the profession told through the biographies of 14
of its most prominent contributors.

Since then, he has continued to write feature pieces for The
New Yorker, Time, Life, National Geographic, Discover, The
New Republic, New York Review of Books, New York Times, Boston
Globe, Los Angeles Times and several other periodicals for
all readers. He writes a regular column for The American Scholar,
serves as Literary Editor for Connecticut Medicine, and is
Chairman of the Board of Managers of the Journal of the History
of Medicine and Allied Sciences.

Dr. Nuland's monumentally successful book, "How We Die",
was published in 1994. A reflection on the modern way of death, "How
We Die" was on the New York Times bestseller list for
34 weeks, with more than a half million copies sold in countries
throughout the world having been translated into 16 languages.
It won that year's National Book Award and was a finalist for
the 1995 Pulitzer Prize and Book Critics Circle Award.

In 1997, "The Wisdom of the Body, or How We Live" (paperback),
was published. This book grew out of Dr. Nuland's interests
in history, human biology, ethics and the nature of humanity.
For over twenty years, Dr. Nuland has closely followed the
emerging field of biomedical ethics, undertaking a wide ranging
study of all the relevant preoccupations and relating them
to the rapidly changing world of medicine. "The Mysteries
Within: The Surgeon Reflects on Medical Myths" is a study
and exploration of the way early societies, influenced by local
myth, religion and superstition, viewed our internal organs.

Dr. Nuland is also the author of the National Geographic publication, "Incredible
Voyage: Exploring the Human Body" (1998), as well as "Romance,
Poetry, and Surgical Sleep" (1995) and "Medicine:
The Art of Healing" (1992).

Dr. Nuland's presentation is free and open to the public but
tickets are required. For more information please contact the
Special Events Hotline at 610-740-3791.